"Mr. Murad Jamal" wrote:
> Hi all,
> I will highly appreciate your help to me if you help me with one (or both)
> of the following 2 problems:
>
> I have the following on my machine (Windows Vista build 5308) successfully
> installed:
> 1) VS 2005 Standard
> 2) Sql Server 2005 Standard
> 3) Windows SDK February CTP (5308)
> 4) Microsoft Visual Studio Code-named orcas CTP preview-development tools
> for winFX
> 5) Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WWF
>
> I have two small problems:
> I) I've read and fully understood Clemens Vasters article about INDIGO [
>
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/technologies/communication/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-
>
> us/dnlong/html/introtowcf.asp ] and I also read your "HELLO WCF" example
>
> [
http://windowscommunication.net/collateral/pages/howto.htm ]; so I wanted
> to ONLY re-write
>
> your "Hello WCF" example on my machine (without making any changes to the
> code), I wrote
>
> the service, and then, chose Build -> success, I've run the sample, yes it's
> working, but
>
> as mentioned in the explanation of "Hello WCF" I must be able to open [
>
> http://localhost/hello ] and see a welcome page ! this is what freaks me !!
> i can't find
>
> anything in the www root directory altough i specified this directory [
>
> http://localhost/hello ] when i defined the new URI in code !! so when I
> open [
>
> http://localhost/hello ] it gives me this error : "..Not Found..".
>
> Note that I haven't developed any website before on ASP.NET 2.0, that's why
> when i open : [
>
> http://localhost ] it gives me "under construction page" !! Tell me please
> why there's NOT
>
> nothing in the root after I build the solution or why the browser gives me
> "..Not Found.."
>
> error !!
>
> II) When I try to create a new ASP.NET 2.0 (on the above machine), and
> choose to save it on
>
> "http", and press on "Browse" button to choose the "Local IIS" option, then
> oops, I can't
>
> use this option , DISABLED !! it tells me that "...you must be a member of
> the
>
> Administrators group on the local computer to access the IIS metabase...",
> what's the hell
>
> is that thing ?! I logged on using my own account and it's of course an
> Administrator
>
> account (i checked that from Control Panel), and to be also sure, I logged
> on with the user
>
> name "Administrator" which is the built-in administrator account with
> Windows Vista, and it
>
> also showed up the above message ! I opened the IIS, tried to play with
> security settings, but couldn't do anything to enable the "local IIS" option
> (mentioned above) !! is there
>
> specific thing that i must do to enable that option ! so i can create ASP.NE
> 2.0 websites on [ http://localhost/ ] ?
>
